Almost everyone has experienced receiving a misdialled call, but an unidentified individual recently experienced a misdial from space, courtesy of British astronaut Tim Peake.

Peake shared on his Twitter account that he was trying to call his home from the International Space Station when he realised he dialled the wrong number.

On Christmas Day, he tweeted an apology to the unknown woman who was on the other end of the line, and insisted that it was not a prank call.

"I'd like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying 'Hello, is this planet Earth?' — not a prank call — just a wrong number!" Peake said on his Twitter page, as quoted by USA Today.

The 43-year-old former Army helicopter pilot is closely being followed by millions of people in the United Kingdom, since he is Britain's first publicly funded astronaut, and also the first Briton to visit the space station.

An earlier report from The Telegraph also shared how Peake was also forced one time to leave a voice message to his parents who were not in their house when he called from space.

Peake's dad, Nigel, shared that they visited their daughter when the British astronaut called from the space station.

"It was quite surreal. We'd popped out for about an hour to see our daughter who lives nearby, came home to an answerphone message, 'Hello, this is your son from the International Space Station'," the British astronaut's dad told ITV News.

He added that he plans to keep his son's message in the answerphone.

"We're out when he calls! That message is going to stay there in perpetuity, I can assure you," he said.

The British astronaut is actively sharing photographs he took from the space station on Twitter. On Christmas Eve, for instance, he tweeted a photo of the sun peeking from behind the Earth, which has been retweeted over 9,300 times as of posting time.